Official records of the Northern School of Music covering its history from incorporation to amalgamation with the Royal Manchester College of Music to form the Royal Northern College of Music. Records include Council minutes, some financial mat...
Northern School of Music (1920-1973), music school, Manchester
Comprises sketches & complete works in MS by John Ogdon, almost entirely unpublished. Virtually every item has additional notes on covers eg. telephone numbers, memoranda, shopping lists, appointments, suggested programmes.. . Also includes s...
Ogdon, John Andrew Howard (1937-1989), Composer, Pianist
Chiefly the surviving music owned and copied by the Shaw Club or Shaw Musical Society. With very few programmes and tickets, and two catalogues of works in their library.
Artificial collection of miscellaneous items given to the College reflecting aspects of musical life in the Greater Manchester area. Includes photographs of Manchester Womens' Orchestra, autograph books, letters from Charles Halle to a numbe...
This collecion consists mainly of the work of Richard Hall, composition teacher at the Royal Manchester College of Music who taught, among others, John Ogdon, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Mazwell Davies etc. Also included are some photographs, docum...
Hall, Richard (1903-1982), composer, Royal Manchester College of Music teacher